Engineering Equity Extension Service (EEES)
"Focus Your Future": Girl's Reception Tool Kit
Project Lead the Way is a series of courses that complement math and science college preparatory courses that strive to establish a solid background in engineering and technology for your student. The "Focus Your Future" Toolkit gives you step-by-step instructions on how to hold an informational reception for girls and their parents about the Project Lead the Way courses. For more information see our toolkit page.
The Education Foundation is collaborating with the National Academy of Engineering to identify experts to act as EEES agents. Once identified, these agents will be trained to incorporate gender equity principles related to engineering and engineering technology into a number of professional development activities offered at the national, state, and local levels. The Education Foundation will also work with Project Lead the Way (PLTW) to identify and train a cadre of master teachers who will train others to integrate gender equity principles into the PLTW summer teacher training institutes.
Goals Project Lead the Way (PLTW) and NAPE are working collaboratively with the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE's) Engineering Equity Extension Service (EEES) to increase the participation of girls in PLTW programs across the country. The team is focusing on three components to accomplish this goal:
- Provide professional development on equity in engineering education to Master Teachers and Affiliate Professors, which will then be provided to teachers attending the Summer Training Institutes-thereby increasing the equity capacity of all PLTW Teachers.
- Design and implement an equity in engineering professional development workshop for Guidance Counselors to be offered at the PLTW Guidance Counselor Conferences.
- Recommend changes to the PLTW curriculum to incorporate equity in instruction and offer resources and student-based activities that will appeal to a more diverse student population.
A PowerPoint presentation provides a brief overview of the EEES Project and its implementation to date. Use this presentation with groups as an orientation to increase their awareness of the project goals and activities. Be sure to also refer individuals to NAE's EEES website and to this NAPE webpage.
Activities
STI Prep Sessions, Rochester, NY, April 2006
Contact Information
Mimi Lufkin
Chief Executive Officer
NAPE
P.O. Box 369
Cochranville, PA 19330
Phone: (610) 593-8038
Fax: (610) 593-7283
Email: mimilufkin@napequity.org
Diana Jensen-Dooling
Project Director
Project Lead the Way
Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES
3599 Big Ridge Road
Spencerport, New York 14559
Phone: (585) 352-2641
Fax: (585) 352-2434
Email: ddooling@monroe2boces.org
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